News Archive 2010 -
28/12/10 - NEW YEAR PHUQ
Phuq will be playing on
the Disjunkt rig at "the obligatory New Year's Eve big dirty squat
party" & a (very different) live set will also be broadcast as part
of the Hekate Sound System's
New Year's celebrations via Ill FM.
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23/12/10 - HAPPY VENERATION OF THE BASTARD NAZARENE -
NEXT UP: RONIN & LASTBOSS - NYE
Firstly, let Bad Sekta wish you a strange &
magickal Christmas, full of whatever you desire...
...& once we've got that out of the way, next up will be a rather
hardcore MPfree EP from Ronin - "(Title TBC)"
in January & a rather lovely EP from Lastboss in February,
entitled "Zhi" - more
info soon.
If you're bored & in London-town on New Year's Eve, why not check
out the rather phat looking "End of the Noughties (Part 2)" - presented
by Club Neurotica, Headfuk & Rum Shack & featuring live sets
from crew such as Hue Jah Fink?
& Ronin. Details on the live page
- be there or be non-spirally!
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28/11/10 - DAVE STITCH - "I THINK THEREFORE I CAN" - OUT
TODAY - PHUQ ATR SET ONLINE
The MPFree version of Dave Stitch's
limited USB stick album, 'I
Think Therefore I Can' is now available for free download - 10
excellent tracks of genre-defying experimentalism, get it now by
clicking here
The last 20 minutes of Phuq's messed-up set from his support slot for
Atari Teenage Riot is now online too - click
here for the download.
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23/11/10 - BAD SEKTA IS FIVE YEARS OLD TODAY - BIGUP ALL
CREW PAST & PRESENT!
Happy birthday to us! To celebrate Bad Sekta's fifth birthday we're
giving you the rather good MP3 mini-compilation '5
Years' - blistering squatcore, bassy ravespace, beautiful glitches
& wonky lushness; featuring exclusive new & archive material
from The
Abominable Mr Tinkler presents: F-lithium, Ascetic,
Coco Lantano, Lastboss, Phuq,
Praetorius & weyheyhey !!
>>> Download it by clicking here
& that's not all; later in the week (likely the 28th) we'll also be
putting out an MPFree version of Dave Stitch's
limited USB stick album, 'I
Think Therefore I Can' - "...the closest I have come yet to
matching the music I hear in my head on most days."
:) Enjoy & keep listening - new releases from loads of crew old
& new coming up...
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08/11/10 - BAD SEKTA RADIO SHOW POSTPONED
Sorry. More soon.
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04/11/10 - MORE GIGS / BAD SEKTA RADIO SHOW / FIFTH
BIRTHDAY
More dates are up on the live page -
latest additions include Phuq on the Disjunkt rig
at Rave Against the Machine in London, supporting Atari Teenage Riot in
Colchester and playing with Ascetic at Queynte's 30th in
Norwich, as well as Freddy Frogs on
the amazing Frogs Records Electro-Gypsy Tour round Europe - as usual
use Google if you want to find all upcoming gigs from the crew.
Our long-promised monthly show for net radio Ill FM
(hopefully) kicks off on Wednesday 10th November - expect 4 hours of
wicked music & inane ranting from The Abominable Mr. Tinkler, Bleak Reference,
Tom Bad Sekta & Will Phuq - visit www.illfm.net from 20:00 on the
night for links to the stream & chatroom...
Like the total fuckwits we are we've only just remembered it's our
fifth birthday on the 23rd, so :) MUCH love & respek' to all Bad
Sekta family & supporters past & present! To celebrate we'll be
giving away a rather snazzy mini-compilation featuring tracks from
label stalwarts Dave Stitch, Lastboss (welcome
back mate!) & Phuq, as well as from our
newer breadbins Ascetic & weyheyhey !!
Should be dope blud. We'll also be putting out the MPFree version of Dave Stitch's
ultra-limited & ultra-wonky USB stick album 'I
Think Therefore I Can', so come back soon...
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17/09/10 - LIVE DATES / RELEASES / SOUNDCLOUD /
FRACTIONAL - 'BLOOD' REMIX ALBUM
Where to begin?! Real busy, as always - check our
globetrotting crew on the Live Dates page - Freddy Frogs is
touring Europe in November (with Ed Cox, Spy K & other Frogs Records
artists), Fractional's all over
the place during the coming months (Belgium, Canada, Mexico, Thailand
& USA), Wombcorps is out &
about all over the UK, DJ Wrongspeed & Ronin
make an appearance at another long-overdue No Fixed Abode
event in October, Randomoidz appears
at Bitz of Noize in December, Ryan Jordan (aka Zeropointenergy)
torments the UK, Norway & France, The Fez! tears up
Bristol in November plus various other Bad Sekta breadbins are
careering around all over the shop (follow the MySpace links to
do some detective work!).
More Bad Sekta releases should start coming through soonish, honest -
wicked collections of older work as MPFree EPs from Fzv
& Shortfacedbear,
a new MPFree EP from Phuq, Ascetic's
limited cassette 'To
Wound the Autumnal CIty' plus the CD compilations split with Bitcrusher & Love Love. We are
getting there slowly!
We have a Soundcloud page now too, if you're into that sort of thing - http://www.soundcloud.com/bad-sekta.
Remember there's a Twitter page too - http://www.twitter.com/badsekta.
Finally, the remix album of Fractional's excellent 'Blood' (released on
Tympanik Audio) can be found here - : http://tympanikaudio.com/releases/td007/
Enjoy kaos - big up yourselves to da maximum!
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31/06/10 - LIVE DATES & WORKSHOPS / ASCETIC REMIX
New live dates & workshops added to the live page - The Fez! & Phuq
in Colchester, Freddy Frogs
& Hue Jah Fink? in
London, Ryan Jordan in
Newcastle & at the Barbican London, Spitting Vitriol in Belgium,
Bulgaria, Russia & Sweden, Fractional
in the USA, Mexico & France, Wombcorps in
Cambridge, Brighton, Leeds & London...
Ascetic has recently remixed the
Thermidor track 'Ecclesiastes', included on the Thermidor - '1929
Revisited' CD / free download which is now available from Connexion
Bizarre. All proceeds from the CD will be donated to Amnesty
International.
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02/06/10 - TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ART / LIVE DATES
Temporary Autonomous Art
London commences today - a celebration of D.I.Y. culture inna
squatted venue, running from today until Sunday - Bad Sekta will be
representing on the Friday night with workshops from Ryan Jordan &
Tom Bad Sekta & live sets from Ascetic, Phuq, Ryan Jordan &
Usedtobecool & there's more workshops, performances, art, visuals
& everything in between going on throughout the duration. Be there
or be non-euclidean!
More wicked live goings one at the weekend come courtesy of Cleggfu
& The Fez! in Colchester & Randomoidz in London - check the live page for more info.
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20/05/10 - SOLE - 'PUSHIT (ASCETIC REMIX)'
Ascetic's excellent entry
for Sole's remix competition is now online for
free download - it's a remix of the track 'Pushit' & can be
downloaded from Rapidshare
or streaming
permalink. Help Ascetic's chances by downloading & sharing it,
big it up if you like it!
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11/05/10 - LIVE DATES / DISTROS PAGE
Finally updated the live page! Head over
there for details of some rather interesting events, including the
first London Temporary Autonomous Art
for several years.
Also added a list
of independent shops & distros where you can purchase some Bad
Sekta releases - more to come / hit us up if you're up for stocking our stuff...
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07/05/10 - WE HAVE ARRIVED / PHUQ SET FROM MARCH'S PITCHLESS SHOW
ONLINE / PHUQ WAFFLES
Oh my gosh! The well overdue Bad Sekta London HQ has now been
initiated - just need to build some walls & we can crank it up into
maximum overdrive - think wicked releases, shows, podcasts & more...
Thanks again to the crew at Pitchless radio for
having Fzv, Phuq
& Tom Bad Sekta on the show on the 24th of March - wicked sets from
all concerned & positive feedback much appreciated! Download Phuq's
set as 320kbps MP3 here.
We've also put up some stuff on the Media page that Phuq
wrote a while back in response to some requests for help with a couple
of dissertations; discussing independent
versus major labels & the
place of album art in modern music. Enjoy?
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24/03/10 - PITCHLESS RADIO : LIVE AS WE TYPE / RONIN
INTERVIEW
Tom Bad Sekta is playing some of his favourite tunes tonight
on Pitchless Radio, which has
started as I type this! At some point this evening there'll also be a
short pre-recorded mix from Phuq, featuring mainly
demos from forthcoming releases... Tune in via Ill FM by clicking here now!
Hot off the presses over at Twenty Third
we have a sneak preview from the forthcoming zine 'Maximum
Perversion' - an interview with Ronin. Read it here first!
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21/03/10 - NEXT RELEASES / PITCHLESS RADIO / INTERVIEW
/ LIVE SETS / QUARTZ AWARDS
Apologies for the lack of recent updates - we currently have
our hands full planning our imminent move to a London-based HQ (so we
can really up the ante!) & getting the next batch of releases
finished; "To
Wound the Autumnal City" (a limited, hand-screened cassette from Ascetic),
vinyl from both Usedtobecool
& Ascetic plus MPFree eps from longtime cohort Shortfacedbear & new
projects CL369 & Praetorius!
On the distant horizon we've some extra special limited CD compilations
coming too - one with our friends at Bitcrusher, the other with the
excellent Love Love (for which we've so far confirmed Burnkane, Dave Stitch,
Dluded, Freddy Frogs, Fzv, Hue Jah Fink?, Mochipet, Phuq, Randomoidz,
Twocsinak & Yann Hekate, with more TBC). Bear with us &
we promise it'll be worth it!
Ascetic will be performing a short live set for our friends at Pitchless Radio, 8pm+, 24th March.
There'll also be a short pre-recorded mix from Phuq, featuring mainly
demos from forthcoming releases. Tune in via Ill FM by clicking here on the night.
In the meantime, fill some of your idle minutes by reading a recent
interview with Tom & Will from the Connexion Bizarre site - click
here to be blasted with information.
For a taster of our recent 'Moot Point' event, download
Ascetic's excellent debut live set here & also an eclectic mix
from DJ Bit Odd here.
You can also download weyheyhey !!'s
heavy duty set from Phuq's 27th Birthday Shenanigans here.
Enjoy!
Fractional's wicked track
"Tasnw" has been selected for the illustrious Qwartz Awards - click
here & vote Fractional in the track category, or you can send
your vote to track_6@qwartz.org.
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13/01/10 - WELCOME TO THE FUTURE
Well, that was another strangely eventful year, so we'll wish you a
happy & productive 2010 & then get on with the usual blurb!
RELEASE SCHEDULE FOR 2010 -
Ridiculously provisional, as always...
JANUARY:
Phuq -
"More Missed Worlds" - Another MPfree version of a mini-CDR from
last year - ONLINE NOW!
Wave
Chaser - "Midnight Butterfly" - Contemplative & shamanic, this
MPfree album is the second of two released posthumously in memory of
Wave Chaser - ONLINE NOW!
THEN:
Ascetic
- "(TBC)" - Absolutely amazing quality vinyl release from one of our
hush-hush "new" acts, we can't wait for this - electronic / bass /
psychedelic / weirdness; "Bad Esoterica if you will"!
Ascetic
- "To Wound the Autumnal City" - Concentrating on the more abstract
/ psychedelic side of Ascetic's output, this will definitely be a bit
of a stylistic departure from some of our previous releases. Available
soon, in cassette runs of 50 with hand-screened covers.
CL369
- "Crushed into Powder then Sold" - MPfree EP from another new
experimental project.
The Fez! - "(TBC)" -
will he actually pull his finger out & deliver us an EP this year?
Wait & see!
Intonamori
- "Ear Weevils 2" - MP3 release of this excellent release, likely
via Juno Downloads - long promised & now very nearly available to
all.
Shortfacedbear
/ Praetorius - "Knob"
- The 'bear returns to the fold with another of his wickedly
imaginative videos, this time for the track "Knob", taken from a
forthcoming EP by Praetorius.
Usedtobecool - "The Independent Fallacy" (12" vinyl)
weyheyhey !! -
"(TBC)" - He's assured us it's definitely happening at some point!
Usedtobecool - "The
Independent Fallacy" - 12" vinyl version of their wicked MPfree
album from 2009.
Various - "(TBC)" - Split CD release with Bitcrusher, more as
it happens...
Various - "(TBC)" - Split CD release with Love Love, more as
it happens...
+ loads more percolating away in the background.
Have a good year folks :)